The body-positive movement has encouraged people, especially women, to see beauty in all shapes and sizes, and it's reminded us that body ideals are culturally constructed and not based on science.

A new body shape trend is music to men’s ears. Many females across TikTok are forgoing the terms “hourglass” and “inverted triangle” to describe their bodies and are going for something more modern.

Growing up in the early aughts, so-called women’s magazines, read furtively in the library, were my religion. I was a true believer, zealously committing the good books — Seventeen, Cosmopolitan, and ...